Nevada (10-13, 4-8 MW) vs. San José State (7-17, 0-12 MW)
Tuesday, Feb. 15, 2022 - 8 p.m.
Reno, Nev. - Lawlor Events Center

TV: FS1 (PxP: Dan Hellie; Analyst: Casey Jacobsen)
Radio: ESPN 94.5 FM (PxP: John Ramey; Analyst: Len Stevens)

RENO, Nev. - Nevada plays a home-and-home with San José State this week, beginning Tuesday night at Lawlor Events Center.

Tuesday night's game will be broadcast on FS1, with Dan Hellie and Casey Jacobsen on the call.  The game will also be carried over the airwaves in Reno on ESPN Radio 94.5 FM and online through the Varsity Network app, with John Ramey sand Len Stevens calling the action.

UP NEXT
The Pack makes a quick trip to the Bay Area to wrap the series with the Spartans Thursday night at 9 p.m. Nevada then gets its second, and final, bye of the regular season, before returning to action Tuesday, Feb. 22, against UNLV (8 p.m.).

LAST TIME OUT
Nevada snapped its six-game slide Friday night, using a strong second half to bag an 85-72 victory at Utah State.

A game after scoring a career-high 36 points, Desmond Cambridge Jr. continued to sizzle, scoring 27 points on 10-of-16 shooting and a 6-for-9 showing from 3-point range. Grant Sherfield, in his second game back after missing three in a row due to a foot issue, scored 24 points with five assists.

Cambridge Jr. started Nevada's second-half surge Friday in Logan, hitting a triple to tie things up at 50-50. Beginning with that 3-pointer, Nevada outscored Utah State, 38-22, the rest of the way.

SCOUTING SAN JOSÉ STATE
San José State (7-17, 0-12 MW) has lost 12-straight heading into Tuesday's first leg of the home-and-home against the Wolf Pack. The Spartans fell, 74-52, at home to Wyoming Saturday night.

Omari Moore leads the Spartans with 12.9 points per game, and is the only player averaging in double figures. Trey Smith is averaging 8.8 points per game and has hit a team-best 46 3-pointers.

HAVEN'T SEEN YOU GUYS MUCH, LATELY
In a rare occurrence between teams in the same conference, Tuesday night marks the first meeting between Nevada and San José State in over two years.

The last meeting of the teams was a 95-77 Nevada victory, in Reno, Feb. 8, 2020. The next four scheduled games between the programs since then have each been affected by COVID-19 issues. A scheduled two-game series in San Jose last Feb. 13 and 15 was postponed due to COVID issues with Nevada, then a rescheduled game March 3 in San Jose was canceled due to COVID issues within San José State's program.

This season, the originally-scheduled Dec. 29 conference opener in San José was postponed due to COVID issues with San José State.

WHAT A LAST FOUR FOR CAMBRIDGE JR.
Redshirt senior guard Desmond Cambridge Jr. has been absolutely on fire over Nevada's past four games, averaging 24.3 points and 6.8 rebounds while shooting 58.3 percent from the field and an incredible 62.5 percent (20-for-32) from 3-point range.

Over last week's games, a split against Colorado State and at Utah State, Cambridge Jr. averaged 31.5 points while shooting 74.2 percent (21-for-32)overall, and 72.2 percent (13-for18) from 3-point range.

Cambridge Jr. has also ratcheted up the defensive intensity, this season. Not only does he draw the assignment of defending the opponent's top guard, but, in Mountain West play, he leads Nevada in blocks (22) and steals (19), while ranking ... in the conference in MW-only games.

SHERFIELD'S RETURN CRITICAL FOR PACK PRODUCTION
The return to action of starting point guard Grant Sherfield, who missed three games (Feb. 1-6) due to a foot issue, Feb. 8 against Colorado State has reignited Nevada's offensive efficiency.

Over the three games without Sherfield, the team's leader in scoring and assists, Nevada made just 20.3 field goals per game and passed out 10.3 assists per game. Over the past two games (Sherfield's return), Nevada upped those numbers to 28.0 field goals made and 16.5 assists. In fact, over the nine Mountain West games with Sherfield running the point, the Wolf Pack averages 24.8 made field goals and 14.2 assists per game.